Job Satisfaction at The Onion

I love it when stories in The Onion are picked up and repeated as true.

My two favorites involve fooling the Chinese. A few years ago they reported as true an Onion story that parodied the way sport franchises like to play one city against another. The story was that the US Congress threatened to move itself to Nashville, TN unless certain conditions were met.

Then a couple of months ago the Chinese reported as fact a satirical Onion story naming North Korean leader Kim Jong Un the sexiest man alive.

Now a St. Paul, Minnesota radio host reacted to this Onion photo, purportedly of an inaugural flyover by drones, as if it were real. He posted it on Facebook as another thing about which to be outraged. He is the host of a community radio program called, of all things, "Truth to Tell."

“Never seen three in a cluster formation like that, but they're obviously scanning the crowd for potential trouble—all monitored by a site in Las Vegas.”

When confronted with his gullibility, he said said, well, it felt true.